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Tonja Renée Stidhum
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Staff Writer, Entertainment at The Root. Sugar, spice & everything rice. Equipped with the uncanny ability to make a Disney reference and a double entendre in the same sentence.

I also really enjoyed Anthony, he’s talented and I hope to see him in more things (I was thrilled to see him in A Star is Born).

I better see folks get up and do the electric slide in this audience with Johnny Gill! 

MC Lyte said sit’chall asses down there is one more performance. Lissen to MC -- can I call her this -- auntie. 

John Legend and DJ Khaled with the choir. HIGHER. 

“The Marathon continues ... again.” - Lauren London.

T.I. presenting the Nipsey Hussle tribute will be an oratory. 

Damson Idris is one distinguished young man. Great tribute to John Singleton by him and Morris Chestnut. 

GP is still with Kirk Franklin, in case he asks. 

Tyler Perry really was like #OscarsSoWhiteWayre and said stop thinking about sitting at the table and set your own. 

Tyler Perry said, “Now that land is owned by a Negro” re: the land previously toiled over by enslaved people.

Tyler Perry said his first 10 movies were subconsciously about his mother. 

“Tyler Perry was the first to pay me for my worth,” Taraji P. Henson.